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Team Beacon smashes Brighton Half Marathon, raising in excess of £70,000 for Brighton-based HIV charity, the Sussex Beacon

Graham Robson February 26, 2024

Celebrities from Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins provided extra inspiration for hundreds of people running to raise funds for the Sussex Beacon at this year’s Brighton Half Marathon, which took place on Sunday, February 25. DS Chris Oliver, known for putting the likes of Zoe Lyons and James ‘Arg’ Argent through their paces on the […]

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Comedy

MindOut for the Laughs to return in August with fierce stand up and spectacular drag!

Graham Robson June 20, 2023

Join MindOut, the LGBTQ+ mental health service, for MindOut for the Laughs – a pre-Pride comedy cabaret fundraising party at Komedia Brighton on Wednesday, August 2; doors 6.30pm for 7.30pm start. 

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Arts

REVIEW: Virtual Brighton Pride – We Are Fabuloso

Brian Butler August 8, 2020

Brian Butler binges on the marathon 3-day virtual Brighton Pride

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Arts

Brighton & Hove Pride: We Are FABULOSO Main Event today 5pm

August 1, 2020

Brighton & Hove Pride’s full schedule for We Are FABULOSO: The Brighton & Hove Pride Digital Festival, main event which takes place online on Saturday, August 1 and Sunday, August 2.

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Arts

United We Stream Brighton: raising funds for the best local artists and venues.

July 23, 2020

United We Stream Brighton will once again be showcasing many of the city’s best local artists and venues this weekend to help raise money to keep the city’s nightlife alive.

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Arts

Stephen Bailey & Zoe Lyons to host Brighton & Hove Pride Online – We Are FABULOSO!

June 25, 2020

Stephen Bailey and Zoe Lyons to host ‘We Are FABULOSO!’, Brighton & Hove Pride’s Digital Festival

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Arts

REVIEW: Bent Double @ Komedia

October 20, 2019

Zoe Lyons has a great rapport with the audience and her likability is definitely an asset. Maybe she was having a bad evening but her material wasn’t great. There was some observational comedy (sans comedy) about people who wear wolf fleeces. We heard the old joke about teachers who work so hard that every year […]

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Arts

Let the Good Times Roll – 25 Years of Komedia: 1994 – 2019

Besi Besemar April 16, 2019

On May 1, 1994, the directors of Umbrella Theatre, Colin Granger, Marina Kobler, and David Lavender, opened a new venue called Komedia, in a converted former billiard hall in Kemptown, Brighton.They modelled the venue on the cabaret theatres they had seen while touring with Umbrella in cities such as Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Berlin; small informal welcoming venues that offered people from all walks of life a place to enjoy comedy, cabaret, and music whilst having a meal and a drink.

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